The fact that this week’s Twitter Mailbag received more submissions than any of the previous 60 installments tells me one thing: you people love free stuff.

The bad news is, I only had two sets of ESPN “Nine for IX” DVDs to give away this week, which means a lot of you will have to settle for merely having your questions answered on the Internet. The good news? I’ve got different prizes to give away in next week’s TMB, so stay tuned.

For now, answers to your questions on Bellator, PED-related boycotts, the UFC’s scorching Johny Hendricks commercial, and more. Find me on Twitter at @benfowlkesMMA to ask a question of your own. Read on to find out if you’re one of this week’s big winners. And learn more about the ESPN documentary series below.

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@benfowlkesMMA Tito injured. Not one person in the media showed concern about his immediate health. Just rejoiced the new M.E. WTF?? #TMB

You know, at first I read your question and thought, Martin’s right, we’re all a bunch of jerks. Then I considered that this is Tito Ortiz we’re talking about, a 38-year-old pro fighter who continues to try and fight despite the surgeries and the losses and the pleas from fans and the media for him to stop, for the love of God, just stop. It’s not like we’re begging the guy to keep putting himself through this. In fact, I think plenty of us would be just fine with it if he never fought again. That’s not to say we should be callous about the man’s health – he’s still a human being, dammit – but how many Get Well Soon cards can he really expect after all this? It’s like a kid who keeps climbing trees, falling out of them, and breaking his arm. The first couple times, sure, we all want to sign his cast, commiserate with him over what a bummer it is that he can’t go swimming this summer. But if he keeps on doing it? Well, eventually that kid just has to learn to stay out of the freaking tree.

@benfowlkesMMA#tmb does it seem like this was the bellator plan all along? Drop the ppv and move to spiketv last minute.

That’s a fun conspiracy theory, but it requires us to assume a level of sophistication and long-term planning that Bellator has never demonstrated. You’re telling me the same people who thought Karo Parisyan was a good pick-up also orchestrated this complex plot to pull a last-minute switcheroo with the most high-profile event in company history? You want me to believe that the same people who couldn’t keep Attila Vegh from publicly contradicting their explanation for why he wasn’t on the pay-per-view also managed to keep this plot a secret? I suppose it’s possible. It’s just not very likely.

@benfowlkesMMA So Beltran vs. Rampage. Those are names I’m familiar with, so why shouldn’t they headline over a title fight on Nov. 15th?

When I talked to Eddie Alvarez last week – before the Bellator pay-per-view became the Bellator awesome Spike TV card – I asked him what he made of playing second fiddle to a non-title affair between Ortiz and Jackson.

“Personally, I don’t care what order the fight’s in,” Alvarez said. “First, second, third, last, it doesn’t matter. I feel like it’s a respect issue.”

He’s right. Objectively, bout order doesn’t mean much. It just tells fans when they need to be in their seats and when they can go for a beer run. But on another level, it does tell us a little something about what the promoter thinks is important. Why else do we even bother labeling one fight the main event, if not to signal that it’s more significant than the others? Currently, Bellator’s November 15 lineup features a bout of hazy significance between Jackson and Beltran, and also a bout with very clear stakes between middleweight champ Alexander Shlemenko and Doug Marshall. You say more people are familiar with “Rampage”? Great. Let them tune in to see him. Once they turn on the TV and see that Jackson isn’t even the main event, maybe they’ll have a reason to stick around and see what’s so special about these other guys.

@benfowlkesMMA bellator cancelled its first ever ppv card on a weeks notice..why couldn’t the ufc have done the same with 151? #tmb

Whoa there, Joe Daddy. The UFC is the one that cancelled an event when one of the main event fighters pulled out. Bellator is the one that decided to do the event anyway, but give it away for free. There’s a big difference. But I see your point. Why couldn’t the UFC have done the same thing with UFC 151 that Bellator did with this ill-fated Tito Ortiz vs. “Rampage” Jackson pay-per-view? For one thing, the UFC had a lot less to fall back on with that card than Bellator does with this one. Which, of course, is no one’s fault but the UFC’s.

You look at the main card of UFC 151 and you see names like Jake Ellenberger, Jay Hieron, Dennis Siver, Thiago Tavares, Dennis Hallman – solid fighters, all of them, but it’s tough to take away Jon Jones vs. Dan Henderson and still get people pumped about Ellenberger-Hieron. Bellator, on the other hand, actually ended up with a much better and more interesting main event when it cleared away the rubble of Ortiz-Jackson to reveal a genuinely exciting title fight rematch between lightweight champ Michael Chandler and former champ Eddie Alvarez, not to mention a few other solid undercard bouts like Pat Curran-Daniel Straus and Mo Lawal-Emmanuel Newton.

That’s an advantage the UFC didn’t have, mostly because it thought it could get away with a weak undercard as long as it had a strong main event. And what did the UFC do when it lost that main event? It blamed the whole thing on the one fighter in the main event who didn’t go and get himself hurt before the fight. Then it cancelled the whole show and told the fans who’d bought plane tickets and Vegas hotel rooms to shut up and, I don’t know, go see Carrot Top or something. Blame Jones and Greg Jackson if you don’t like it. Those effing sport-killers.

Now that I think about it, it makes me mad all over again. It’s especially infuriating when you contrast Dana White’s apoplectic response to that incident with Bellator’s reasonable, measured approach here. Say what you will (and I have [http://www.mmajunkie.com/news/2013/08/tito-ortiz-rampage-jackson-and-bellators-confusing-return-to-mmas-past]) about the wisdom of Bellator’s initial plan to put all its eggs in the Ortiz-Jackson basket, but at least Bjorn Rebney didn’t throw a tantrum when it didn’t work out. Instead he salvaged the event and made it more accessible to fans. Thanks for reminding us of that, Joe Daddy. Here, let me give you these DVDs to show my gratitude.

@benfowlkesMMA Werdum said Cain’s style was “perfect for him”. I can’t agree, but what’s Werdum’s best gameplan?

I can’t agree with Fabricio Werdum’s assessment either, since Cain Velasquez is likely too quick for him on the feet and too difficult for him to take down. So how does he win that fight? I don’t know. Flying triangle, maybe? Pull guard and hope for the best? If that doesn’t work, go for the butt-scoot, playa. Butt-scoot all night long.

@benfowlkesMMA what year will a bloody women’s MMA fight elicit the same response as a comparable men’s war? +/- 2025?

I guess it depends who you’re looking to for that response. For some fans, that time is now. For others, yeah, it may take a while. Some people might never be as comfortable watching the same level of brain-jarring violence among women as among men, which is weird, when you think about it. At the same time, let’s not assume that sexism explains all.

For instance, take the Jessica Andrade-Rosi Sexton fight last weekend. I know Sexton believes that fans wouldn’t have responded with the same horrified concern if two men had put on the same exact fight, and I can’t say that gender bias didn’t account for at least some of the reactions to the beating she endured. Still, I seem to recall a lot of people – UFC president Dana White included – saying many of the same things about the Cain Velasquez-Junior dos Santos bout that took place a week prior. When I spoke to Sexton earlier this week, she wondered whether people would have been criticizing her for being “too tough for [her] own good” if she’d been a man. Well, JDS was on the receiving end of that very same criticism, as was Diego Sanchez. The big difference, I suspect, is in the reaction of the outspoken minority. With a bloody, brutal men’s fight, I think fans are more likely to shake their heads and talk about what a shame it is, maybe do some hand-wringing on message boards, then move on. When the same thing happens between two women, there’s a certain kind of dude who seems to feel that it’s his duty to do something about it (even if that something is writing angry emails or Twitter messages aimed the very same people he claims to be concerned about). That dude should probably shut up. At the very least, he should write the same emails and tweets to dos Santos, who will almost certainly read them and wonder, why they do that?

@benfowlkesMMA#tmb what happens to former great Miguel Torres? Can he still be remembered as one of the best 135ers ever?

That’s always a tough question when we’re looking at a once-dominant fighter who suffered a very sudden decline. On one hand, Miguel Torres was one of the WEC fighters who played a pivotal role in sparking the initial interest in the 135-pounders. On the other, he’s now lost three straight, and four of his last five. He’s also been beaten by most of the really serious opponents he’s faced. Marlon Moraes, Michael McDonald, Brian Bowles, plus Demetrious Johnson and Joe Benavidez (both of whom are now flyweights) – none of those guys are chumps. At the same time, if the best thing we can say about you is that you lost to some tough fighters, what does that really mean? If all the really good guys beat you, how can we still call you great?

@benfowlkesMMA does Hendricks get to grease because of his burn? But seriously, does that change anything for you? #tmb

Mostly it changes how I think of the UFC and whoever it hires to shoot these commercials. Seriously, you can’t get an ad done without burning one of the people that you’re advertising? That’s like doing a BMW commercial where you accidentally knock over a light and smash the windshield – except that in this case there’s only one BMW! The good news is, according to the report from MMA Fighting [http://www.mmafighting.com/2013/10/30/5046668/johny-hendricks-suffered-second-degree-burn-on-his-back-while-filming], Johny Hendricks only missed a couple of days of training because of it, so it doesn’t seem like it will alter the outcome of the fight too much. It’s just so remarkably, unbelievably dumb.

@benfowlkesMMA Happy for Cruz and for Barao fight but also nervous? Not even a big fan, just feels unfair w/high unhappy ending possibility.

It does feel vaguely unfair, but I can’t think of a better solution. Dominick Cruz is the UFC bantamweight champion. What, should he get a non-title warm-up fight before facing interim champ Renan Barao? Because I can’t imagine what you’d tell the poor schmuck who’s hand-picked as the warm-up dummy. I also don’t know what you’d do if Cruz lost that fight. Would Barao’s title get an immediate upgrade? Would the warm-up dummy become the people’s champ? Would chaos engulf first the UFC’s 135-pound division, then the world?

So yes, Cruz is going to have to come back after an agonizingly long injury layoff, and right away he’ll have to defend his dusty old belt against the other best fighter in the division. If he loses we’ll all wonder whether it was the ring rust or Barao that truly did in him. If he wins he’ll be the greatest bantamweight in the UFC’s very brief history. So at least there’s that.

@benfowlkesMMA Drysdale popped for elevated T:E ratio…should I ever care again for any of his fights? Is boycotting fighters viable?

Good question. I say yes, boycotting fighters who fail drug tests is not only a viable strategy, it might even be a great one. You care about promoting a clean sport, at least as far as you, as a fan, are reasonably capable of it? Fine. Don’t watch those fighters, don’t pay for pay-per-views that they’re on, don’t buy anything from sponsors who support them, don’t read articles about them on the Internet – nothing. And don’t just do it passively, either. Let the UFC and the websites and the sponsors know you’re doing it, and tell them why. You might not be able to institute more stringent testing protocols or more severe punishments for the known cheaters in MMA, but at least you can deprive them and those who support them of your money and attention. I think that’s a fair, reasonable, and responsible approach. And for suggesting it, I’m going to give you some free DVDs, Big Awyer.

Ben Fowlkes is MMAjunkie.com and USA TODAY’s MMA columnist. Follow him on Twitter at @BenFowlkesMMA. Twitter Mailbag appears every Thursday on MMAjunkie.com.

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